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Led by Kevin Chiak, the founder of Fitness Force gym, the newly-minted Singapore Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation (SBPF) was unveiled on October 4 at the Cairnhill Community Club.
Offering themselves up as an alternative to the SBBF as a national body for the sport, Chiak declared: "Let the best federation win!"
Bodybuilding in Singapore was hit in August by a doping scandal in which seven athletes were each handed two-year bans.
But it was the financial dealings of the SBBF that prompted Chiak and former SBBF ex-co members such as Bindiya Nandwani Fam, Dennis Tew and Techna Miti Nadesan to form a rival body.
"We want more transparency in how bodybuilding is managed in Singapore," Chiak told TODAY.
"We've got at least half of the members migrating to us from the SBBF and we want to start anew for the sport and hope to get the rest of the bodybuilding community in Singapore on board with us.
"It is unfortunate that things had come to this but, when the SBBF refused our request to hold an extraordinary general meeting (EOGM) in April to answer issues relating to how the finances of the SBBF were managed, we decided that we had to do something for the sake of bodybuilding."
The SBBF were stripped of their affiliation to the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) last month after failing to renew their membership, which costs S$25, in March.
They have since lost government funding as they are no longer receiving the Singapore Sports Council's (SSC) annual grants to national sports bodies.
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